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Robin Sage: Hawke's Bay Regional Council total fire ban ‘draconian'

Clint Durrant:

● It’s not just orchards and vineyards that need to have burn offs, what about farms with wood lots or shelter belts that get pulled down? All that slash needs to be burnt before it ends up in the water ways

● I see a lot of fruit trees being cut down [I] would love to get for hangi and home. It would be burned a lot cleaner in fire places

Scott Dellow:

Axel Alexander:

● There are bigger and better things to be concentrat­ing on as a councillor, like the state of the roads.

● Very well researched and written article. It appears Mr Graham has his eye on the Green Party and to hell with his constituen­ts and the orchards that bring so much money in to Hawke’s Bay

● Well, if you have a total fire ban, that is only going to fuel a lot more fires in the

Ross Derbidge:

Janeen Gladstone:

hotter times, so then you will be complainin­g not just about the amount of dam smoke but also putting lives and homes and communitie­s at risk. Use your common sense all you Greenies

● Darren Cooper: Regional council had large fires down Walker Rd a week or so ago. They went for a week. Cold mornings had nearby houses covered in smoke. They need to grow up. Fire has been here since before man. Work

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